Based on your needs your comprehensive evaluation may include residential services in a facility with accessible rooms, a dining hall and scheduled recreational activities to create a comfortable atmosphere.

If needed, pain management sessions are available to help you learn assertiveness and relaxation skills. Special exercises and lifting techniques can reduce stress, increase strength and decrease the possibility of additional injury.

For individuals with Brain injuries, sessions help you identify and address barriers to employment and develop strategies to improve your work-related performance.

Based on the results of your evaluation and feedback from you and your family, we work with you to develop a plan to help overcome behavioral and cognitive limitations.

Individual and group therapy sessions help you develop awareness of your limitations and provide you with an opportunity to apply and practice behavioral strategies.

Depending on your needs, sessions may include adjusting to a disability, problem solving, and stress management, social support, goal setting, and memory management strategies.

Muscular Development

Physical therapy

A registered physical therapist develops, implements and supervises a therapy program for each individual. The program includes a therapeutic exercise plan designed to decrease pain and increase function.

Aquatic therapy*

The buoyancy of water benefits consumers who have difficulty exercising in traditional ways. Aquatic therapy increases strength, endurance, balance and coordination.

* not offered at all locations

This evaluation has been such a wonderful blessing to me. I can look towards the future with great hopes.

— Gayla D. Bouknight, former comprehensive evaluation consumer

Special Sessions

Pain management

The four-week pain management comprehensive evaluation examines the relationship between tension and pain. Participants practice pain management through the use of assertiveness and relaxation skills that reduce stress while learning special exercises and lifting techniques to strengthen muscles and decrease the possibility of additional injury.

Brain injury

The four-week brain injury comprehensive evaluation was developed in cooperation with the Head and Spinal Cord Injury (HASCI) Division of the S.C. Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Roger C. Peace Rehabilitation Hospital in Greenville and the Brain Injury Association of South Carolina, which continue to contribute to the program.

Summer Activities*

include Summer Institutes hosted by local VR offices across the state, and Summer Camps hosted by VR’s Comprehensive Evaluation Centers, that feature fun-filled career and post-secondary education exploration at no cost.

* not offered at all locations

Thank you for believing in me. I learned a lot about how to work better.